On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Shaun McDonald <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On 30 Dec 2010, at 18:25, Wyo wrote: > > > Shaun McDonald wrote: > >> > >> So far there hasn't been any great ideas as to why we would need to > implement > >> a new API version. > > > > Well as far as the current brainstorming goes you might be right. Yet I'd > like to filter data on the modification timestamp (e.g. only data after a > certain timestamp). I can imagine that this could reduce the load on the > XAPI server. > > That is something that a third party service should be doing since it could > be kept pretty much up to date (within a a matter of minutes) with the > minutely diffs. If the XAPI servers are not able to cope then maybe XAPI > needs to be re-written to be more efficient such that it can cope with the > demand. > The XAPI servers cope very well. The problem is just insufficient hardware. The main XAPI instance runs on a single core processor with just 4GB of memory.
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